HIV Patients Told to ‘rely on God’ by Pentecostal Pastors

Summary: Some Pentecostal pastors in England have been telling HIV patients to rely on God since faith in God’s miraculous healing powers is central to Pentecostalism. Some pastors claim that they never suggested patients forgo medical support while others say that pastors have pressured patients to stop taking HIV medication.

Think About: – Can religion and medicine peacefully coexist? Overlap? – Does religion restrict or promote medicine? Neither? – Were the pastors actually telling patients to stop taking medicationor is this the result of miscommunication?